The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-01-09
LUXURY vs.. NECESSITY.
A Christmas Greeting from the
Parsee Merchant.
To Ny FellO,0-Gitizens:

To Ny FeIlOO- Citizens.
There are many Christmas books
pamphlets and leaflets published that in
general are more amusing than useful.
Allow me. my fellow citizens to present
you with brief collection of statistics
that will, am sorry to say, be more
useful than amusing. 1 herewith give
an extract of only a small number of
articles that may be called luxuries and
others that are certainly necessaries of
life, which l place in parallel columns to
show now they are respectively taxed
| ny the present tariff, and. without, fur
ther preface, here they are:
Duty on articles of Duty on Articles of
Luxury. Necessity
QUAR- OF roses, free Castor oil, $50 per cent
Neroli, or orange flow Linseed oil 90 percent
er oil, free.
Diamonds, 10per cent. Common window
glass, 81 per cent
raw SIX, iree. Raw wool, 45per cent.
JeHsHy, ZoPer cent. lSteeI rails, So per cent.
Gold studs, % per cent. Horseshoe nails. l16
Finest still wines inlCheapest mired wool
bottles, % per cent. en- goods. costing
a6oat "A cents per
Finest thread lace 3OISpoOl thread n nov
per cent. cent
Fine Aubusson andCommon drupqats
AxmlnSter carpets, costing abroad 26
costing ABROAD $2.77l cents yard, IS per
yaru, 40 per cent, cent.
flnest 1ndla shaWls, 70 ON mon wooden
costlng ABROAD say shaWls, costing
$40 pound weight, abroad * cents q
% cents pounu ana pound, Sc per cent.
40per cent ad VGlOr-
EN-, or say 4o1a per
cent.
Silk stockings. so per Common worsted
cent. stockings costing "a
cents pound abr d,
Finest br dc 10th, lOommon cloth. cost
coSung 20 pound ing IS cents pound
weight abroad, IS abroad, duty IS els.
cents pound, and pound and 35 Der
~ per cent, equal TO cent. ad valorem-
about Al per cent equal to SO per cent.
Pate de fole gras, 25IRice, LOG per cent.
per cent.
Musical instruments Galyaniz wire
of all kinds, Is per smaller than No. l6 |
cent. and not smaller than
No. 26 wire guage, |
2per cent. smaller |
than No. &c, 155 per |
cent.
Duty on quart bottle Duty on a dollars |
of champagne, cost worth of bleached |
ing about IL bottle cotton fabric, cost
IS cents. ing abroad So cents |
square yard, 6612
cents.
Curry, and curry pow Potatoes, Is cents duty
der, free. per bushel
olives, green or pre- Corn starch. 65l3 per
pared free. cent. duty
spices OF all kinds Salt, IS per cent. duty.
free.
OF course this is only a drop in the
bucket of thousands of other items that
night be tr attd in a similar manner.
And now 1 challenge the journals, who
uphold our tariff system:
First-To print the above list, which
'epresents the greatest legal sWindle of
;he age. And
Second-To explain and vindicate the
Justice of retaining these enormous tax
atoms. wish further to remind you,
ny fellow citizens, that when the cues
ion came up in the House last Satur-
lay to consider, remember, say "con-
ider, the advisa bility ofreducing these
axes, 154 members of Congress (com-
posed of 131 Republicans and % Demo
rats maintained by their vote that the
question should not even be considered.
further, that for the $780,
40 900 customs revenue that goes into
be Treasury you my fellow-citizens.
Jay at least $1,000 100000 into the
pockets of monopolies ev cry year. |
egret that l shall spoil your Christmas
heer. But if reason, common sense.
air play and independence, which ought
o be the distinguishing marks of the
American citizen, are not entirely sub
lued, this very little Christmas present
nay prove more useful to the future
welfare of this free land than ANYTHING
hat you could possible have received
Turing the year. There was a time in
his Cou ntry when such uhcontradlcted
Trong and legal robbery was properly
nd lawfully resented. How much of
his spirit of freedom and independence
J left in the present generation to lift
p not their hands, but their voices, in
efense of their rights it is for you to
ecide.
Respectfully, your fellow-citizen,
J. S. MOORE.
New York, Wednesday, Dec. %. 1886.